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Violence with its manners removed.
means Brutal, uncontrolled violence or cruelty, stripped of restraint or civilization.
from Traces back through French 'sauvagerie' to Latin 'silvaticus' — 'of the woods,' from 'silva,' forest. The word originally just meant wild or untamed, like something living outside cultivated, settled land. Over time 'of the forest' curdled into 'uncivilized,' then into the darker sense of brutality — a shift that says more about old prejudices against wilderness and outsiders than about the woods themselves.
- etymology
- from silva, latin for forest, meaning wild
- legal use
- aggravating factor judges cite in sentencing
- perception bias
- word often applied unevenly across cultures historically